No fails from me either. I don't count the occasional difficulties of James as "fail", I'm thinking of trainwrecks, blatant musical mistakes, someone slipping or falling on stage, James completely forgetting the lyrics etc... never saw that happen in person.

I'm not sure it's a "fail" really as it wasn't the band's fault, but I remember JP's guitar cutting out during UAGM at the Radio City Score show.

Yeah, they obviously overdubbed it for the Score DVD, but you can still pick up clues as to what happened. Petrucci is dicking around with his pedals and speakers, Portnoy keeps nervously checking him.

Grand Prarie when they opened with BITS JPs guitar wasnít turned up thru the speakers..MM still had perfect timing ..Iím assuming he had ear monitors so he could hear the guitar intro... then volume kicked in ..little derailment but not a train wreck

Not a fail of the band, but the power went down too in Buenos Aires, AFTR tour, fortunately (and not) while the youtube compilation video was on, so it didn't cut any song, but it was a tense moment where we didn't know if the show was going to conclude.. I remember JP came back almost running to the stage to start playing The Mirror to not wasting any more time..

The only colossal screw up I saw was at my first DT show at Hammerstein Ballroom in April of 2014. James completely forgot the words to Lie and even told the crowd that he messed up. John ended up singing the rest of the lyrics to the song into his face to mess with him. It's on YouTube somewhere.

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Sorry, guess I should have defined fail as mistakes, errors, or whatever else happened that was unexpected or unplanned. So in my opinion all of the above apply. Interesting that there were so many power failures. I've been to tons of show's over the years and thankfully that has never happened.

Not in person, but there's a rare double fail here (@1:42:50), Portnoy messes up the beat, then Jordan fails to switch patches in time for the solo 10 seconds later: https://youtu.be/M81CHCBcwqs?t=1h42m50s

I just don't understand what they were trying to achieve with any part of the song, either individually or as a whole. You know what? It's the Platypus of Dream Theater songs. That bill doesn't go with that tail, or that strange little furry body, or those webbed feet, and oh god why does it have venomous spurs!? And then you find out it lays eggs too. The difference is that the Platypus is somehow functional despite being a crazy mishmash or leftover animal pieces

In Tucson, on The Astonishing tour, during the intro to Losing Faythe, JLB forgot the lyrics. You hear "My foolish pride...da da dada...wow." Then remembered and sang the rest really giving it, making up for that mistake.

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At the beginning of their set covering all of Master of Puppets, JL lost his place with the lyrics to Battery because he was relying on a teleprompter for the lyrics, and the teleprompter guy had screwed up and wasn't cycling thru the lyrics like he was supposed to. IIRC, the problem didn't get sorted out until the end of the song, so we got an instrumental version of that song. But on the up side, JL was so pissed off as a result that he gave a fiery performance for the rest of that set, which benefited those songs.

As a basic rule, if you hate it, you must solely blame Portnoy. If it's good, then you must downplay MP's contribution to the band as not being important anyway, or claim he's just lying. It's the DTF way.

Grand Prarie when they opened with BITS JPs guitar wasnít turned up thru the speakers..MM still had perfect timing ..Iím assuming he had ear monitors so he could hear the guitar intro... then volume kicked in ..little derailment but not a train wreck

I was there too. I've witnessed two fails then

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Grand Prarie when they opened with BITS JPs guitar wasnít turned up thru the speakers..MM still had perfect timing ..Iím assuming he had ear monitors so he could hear the guitar intro... then volume kicked in ..little derailment but not a train wreck

Not a trainwreck at all, but JP's panicked reaction was worth the price of admission.

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Grand Prarie when they opened with BITS JPs guitar wasnít turned up thru the speakers..MM still had perfect timing ..Iím assuming he had ear monitors so he could hear the guitar intro... then volume kicked in ..little derailment but not a train wreck

MM is playing to a click track. He comes in at the same time no matter what.

Grand Prarie when they opened with BITS JPs guitar wasnít turned up thru the speakers..MM still had perfect timing ..Iím assuming he had ear monitors so he could hear the guitar intro... then volume kicked in ..little derailment but not a train wreck

MM is playing to a click track. He comes in at the same time no matter what.

Yeah, for all we know Mangini could have all the other band members turned down in his in ears, so he just hears his drums and the click. He hasn't listened to Dream Theater in years

At the beginning of their set covering all of Master of Puppets, JL lost his place with the lyrics to Battery because he was relying on a teleprompter for the lyrics, and the teleprompter guy had screwed up and wasn't cycling thru the lyrics like he was supposed to. IIRC, the problem didn't get sorted out until the end of the song, so we got an instrumental version of that song. But on the up side, JL was so pissed off as a result that he gave a fiery performance for the rest of that set, which benefited those songs.

I remember that, I think you were right behind me. (I seem to recall that discussion way back on the MP board then)

The first time I saw them, on the Awake-tour, James microphone didnīt work. After a while he threw away the whole microphone stand and left the stage furious. The band jammed on and he returned about 10 minutes later and restarted the song (Pull me under). All in all, a fantastic concert

The first time I saw them, on the Awake-tour, James microphone didnīt work. After a while he threw away the whole microphone stand and left the stage furious. The band jammed on and he returned about 10 minutes later and restarted the song (Pull me under). All in all, a fantastic concert

Wonder if this was recorded... They had lots of great jams back then when things went wrong (the Back Pain jam being one that immediately springs to mind.)